10-14: How to be Hawky with Janet Ng
4/9/202647 min
The wide open spaces of the North American west are frequently spotted with signs of human industrial energy production. Oil and gas wells, massive wind turbines, and the like are impossible to miss and impact, occasionally significantly, the birds that live in these vast prairie ecosystems. Dr Janet Ng studies the effects of this industrial incursion into these wild places in the southern Canadian plains, and works with various partners to keep landscapes "hawky".
Also, Peter Pyle has some interesting thoughts on "electronic pishing" in the most recent issue of Birding
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